University of Exeter PhD Studentship

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter (Penryn Campus, Cornwall, UK) in Offshore Aquaculture Engineering , with a focus on structural dynamics , hydrodynamics , offshore engineering , and sustainable food systems . The project addresses a major challenge for the future of aquaculture: how offshore fish farm structures respond to waves, currents, and extreme storm conditions in deeper waters. The research will develop methods to characterise coupled environmental loading and dyn...

EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award 2026/27: Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds offers 2 PhD studentships in a strong research environment within the School of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The linked research themes include climate-resilient biogas upgrade approaches for biohydrogen and biomethane recovery from organic wastes , data-driven environmental assessment of next-generation concrete , energy micropiles for sustainable retrofit , and UK bri...

Professor Fleur Loveridge at the University of Leeds is advertising a fully funded PhD on energy micropiles for sustainable retrofit. The project sits within a larger UKRI-funded research programme and involves collaboration with researchers at the University of Surrey , University of Cambridge , and NTNU in Trondheim . The research topic is flexible and can be shaped around the successful applicant’s interests. Possible directions include thermal analysis of energy micropiles, their geotechnica...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, UK on water treatment with membranes , with a focus on improving the lifespan of nanofiltration (NF) membranes used for drinking water production in Scotland. The project studies membrane fouling and how different foulants affect membrane lifetime, including natural organic matter , soluble and particulate iron and manganese , and biofouling . The research aims to understand fouling formation on membrane surfaces and to inform more eff...

Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI) at Leeds Beckett University is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship on Advancing Understanding of Performance Evaluation and Innovations for Buildings . The project focuses on building performance evaluation (BPE) , with an emphasis on improving how buildings are understood in practice. Key themes include sustainability , energy efficiency , in-situ testing , building physics , and innovative performance metrics such as the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HT...